The Detention Center
Summit County Jail
- Operated bySummit County Sheriff's Office
- Address6300 Justice Center Road, Park City, UT 84098
- Capacity"Full service jail with the capacity of a hundred inmates"
- DesignIntegrated medical, dental, self-sufficient kitchen, and direct Summit County Court access to minimize transports
- Authorized populationPre-sentenced arrestees and convicted misdemeanants
- What was triedSite search for 'PREA', 'death', 'inspection', 'roster', 'contract' — no jail-specific results for any
Source: Summit County Sheriff's Office — Corrections/Jail Division · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsApproximately 100 ("capacity of a hundred inmates")
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Kacey Bates
- Runs the jailYes — "The Summit County Sheriff is charged by statute with the responsibility of 'Keeper of the Jail,' UCA 17-22-2"
- Office address6138 Paintbrush Road, Park City, UT 84098
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Summit County Sheriff's Office — Corrections/Jail Division · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Utah judges are appointed by the Governor through a nominating commission, then face retention election. They are state judicial officers, not county officials. The Third Judicial District covers Salt Lake, Summit, and Tooele Counties.
Third District Court — Presiding Judge
- Adam T. Mow
Justice Court
- Not found — no judge named on the county's Justice Court page
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Commissary/phone/video services are handled through a named vendor (HomeWav) with a described deposit process, but no specific per-minute or per-item rate is published on the county's own Commissary page, so 'fees' is marked no.
- Posting Bail page (https://www.summitcountysheriff.org/2456/Posting-Bail) gives clear guidance: cash, credit cards, and cashier's checks accepted for bondable charges; cash-only or no-bail holds per warrant directive.
- No Utah Sheriffs' Association jail standards result for Summit County found published on the county's own site.
- Summit County Council (legislative body; appoints a county manager who holds executive authority): Canice Harte (Chair), Roger Armstrong (Vice Chair), Tonja Hanson, Megan McKenna, Chris Robinson.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Summit County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered